Political Parties


Election of 10th Dec 1832 to 8th Jan, 1833
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 808 Elected
Liberal 797 Elected
Conservative (2) 634

More information about the 1833 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th Jan 1835 to 6th Feb, 1835
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 761 Elected
Conservative (2) 629 Elected
Liberal 578

More information about the 1835 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 24th Jul 1837 to 18th Aug, 1837
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 700 Elected
Liberal (1) 697 Elected
Conservative (2) 655
Liberal (2) 537

More information about the 1837 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Jun 1841 to 22nd Jul, 1841
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 793 Elected
Conservative (2) 785 Elected
Liberal (1) 605
Liberal (2) 578

More information about the 1841 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Jul 1847 to 26th Aug, 1847
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 769 Elected
Liberal 743 Elected
Conservative (2) 732

More information about the 1847 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jul 1852 to 31st Jul, 1852
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 1159 Elected
Conservative 736 Elected
Liberal (2) 438

More information about the 1852 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 27th Mar 1857 to 24th Apr, 1857
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 706 Elected
Liberal (2) 695 Elected
Conservative (1) 548
Conservative (2) 484

More information about the 1857 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Apr 1859 to 18th May, 1859
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) -1 Elected
Liberal (2) -1 Elected

More information about the 1859 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 2nd Jun, 1862
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 671 Elected
Conservative (1) 361 Elected
Conservative (2) 10

This was a by-election.

Election of 11th Jul 1865 to 24th Jul, 1865
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) -1 Elected
Liberal (2) -1 Elected

More information about the 1865 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 17th Nov 1868 to 7th Dec, 1868
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 1840 Elected
Conservative 1751 Elected
Liberal (2) 685

More information about the 1868 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 21st Sep, 1870
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 1291 Elected
Liberal 1253 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 31st Jan 1874 to 17th Feb, 1874
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 1672 Elected
Liberal (2) 1561 Elected
Conservative (1) 1388
Conservative (2) 1328

More information about the 1874 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar 1880 to 27th Apr, 1880
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 1945 Elected
Liberal (2) 1884 Elected
Conservative (1) 1622
Conservative (2) 1568

More information about the 1880 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 10th May, 1880
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 24th Nov 1885 to 18th Dec, 1885
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 2244 Elected
Liberal 1512

More information about the 1885 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st Jul 1886 to 27th Jul, 1886
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 1826 Elected
Liberal 1269

More information about the 1886 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 4th Jul 1892 to 26th Jul, 1892
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 1979 Elected
Liberal 1573

More information about the 1892 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 13th Jul 1895 to 7th Aug, 1895
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative -1 Elected

More information about the 1895 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st Oct 1900 to 24th Oct, 1900
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative -1 Elected

More information about the 1900 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Jan 1906 to 8th Feb, 1906
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 2395 Elected
Liberal 1955

More information about the 1906 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Jan 1910 to 10th Feb, 1910
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 2596 Elected
Liberal 1994

More information about the 1910 Feb General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd Dec 1910 to 19th Dec, 1910
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 2423 Elected
Liberal-Labour 1855

More information about the 1910 Dec General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 22nd Apr, 1913
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 2412 Elected
Independent 1727

This was a by-election.


The election result data we hold includes over three hundred party labels, so we have simplified them to these seven simple categories. Of course, most candidates in most elections, and almost every candidate who won, was standing for one of the main parties, but an enormous range of labels have been used by one or two candidates. These groupings have been defined based almost entirely on the party labels, rather than detailed research into party policies, but including words like 'Labour' or 'Conservative' in ...


your party label says a lot about where you stand, and even more about the people voting for you. 'Left' means broadly speaking candidates to the left of the Liberal or Labour parties, 'Right' candidates to the right of the Conservatives. 'Nationalist' means any kind of nationalist, even including Isle of Wight nationalists.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Shrewsbury PBCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12753664/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 01st May 2024